Chapter 176 Rattan Shield
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At noon, the cook who stayed in the tribe finished the meal, came out and said something to the man standing on the low wall on the west side, and the man opened his throat to talk to the people who were busy in the field not far away. Open your throat to announce the news of the meal.
Everyone in the Qingque tribe, holding a big bowl and eating the soup boiled with salt, felt very happy.
Although the salt has only been produced by Han Cheng for more than a year, it has been deeply imprinted in the bones of the Qingque tribe, as deep-rooted as a habit that has been passed down for a long time.
If at this time, let them eat broth without salt, most of them will find it difficult to swallow.
Salt is such a magical existence.
When eating, many people would involuntarily look up at the built house. On the wall under the eaves, there were not only a lot of meat that was being dried, but also several pieces of meat that were hung there. millet.
They couldn't get enough of such a sight.
The eldest brother ate very quickly, put two chopsticks across the bowl, threw the bowl away when it was empty, wiped his mouth and went to rest.
After taking a nap for a while, go on to reclaim the wasteland, and finish this area here before dark.
Han Cheng stopped the elder brother and told him to wait a while, there is something to show him.
The elder brother stopped as he said, and looked at Shenzi expectantly, and couldn't help wondering what good thing Shenzi had come up with.
When Han Cheng said this, he didn't deliberately lower his voice. Many people heard it. They all speeded up their meal and wanted to follow along.
Well, curiosity is probably innate.
The lame grilled rice at the side grilled faster, because the thing Shenzi said came from his hands.
When Han Cheng finished eating, all the people around him had finished eating. Han Cheng sniffled helplessly, smiled and waved to everyone, and walked towards the open space in the courtyard.
Han Cheng looked at his lame with a little excitement and nodded, and he limped and ran quickly to the three brick-roofed houses, and came out again in a blink of an eye, holding an oval wooden raft in his hand.
This wooden raft is different from the wooden rafts commonly used by the Qingque tribe to sandwich the walls. The weaving method is much more complicated, similar to the method of weaving the head of the tree, but more cumbersome than that. The wooden raft Also stronger.
The wooden raft is not too big, 80 centimeters long and 50 centimeters wide at its widest point, similar to the tribal pot lids made of split wooden sticks and grass stems.
Everyone looked at this familiar yet unfamiliar thing, and couldn't figure out the intention of the Son of God for a while, and didn't know what this strange-looking wooden raft could be used for.
It is definitely not possible to build a version, it is too small.
It doesn't work to cover the soup pot, there are too many gaps to reveal air.
Han Cheng took the strange-looking wooden raft from his lame hand, held the wooden handle with a diameter of two or three centimeters horizontally in the middle behind the raft, and lifted it up.
The wooden handle is curved, with a span of about ten centimeters, and the highest point is about five centimeters away from the raft.
Like the shank, both ends are woven directly into the raft.
If you have the strength to weave the stump head in this way, even if you put more than two hundred catties of stones inside, the handle of the stud head will not be separated from the stud head when you lift it up. It is conceivable that this strange-looking wooden raft How strong is the handle in the middle that is held by hand.
Well, presumably many people have already guessed what this thing is, so let's not make a fuss about it.
Yes, this is a shield.
Although it looks a bit weird and crude, it has everything a shield should have.
Regarding the matter of improving weapons, Han Cheng has actually been thinking about it for a long time, but because the current conditions are limited, many things cannot be produced, and various things are complicated, he has not thought about which weapon to make and what to use. The material, how to make it, has been falling down.
After such a long period of deliberation, it can be said that the right time, place and people are at the right time, so this shield woven with rattan came into being.
In fact, at the beginning, Han Cheng didn't think about making a shield, but wanted to make an offensive weapon.
He forgot where he heard the saying that offense is the best defense, and it has always remained in his mind, and he has also been passionate about it, thinking that offense is better than passive defense.
This kind of thought continued until he saw the 'job bowl' of a primitive female who was breastfeeding a child, and then he stopped abruptly.
The 'rice bowl' specially prepared by the female primitive woman for the child has a piece of blue on it, which is the trace left by the people of the Tengshe tribe who came to attack last winter with stones.
When Han Cheng saw it, it had been almost three months since the Tengshe tribe attacked.
More than three months have passed, and the bruises on this primitive woman's body have not completely disappeared, which shows that she was seriously injured.
It was this bruise that had not been completely eliminated that made Han Cheng completely change his mind.
Going to fight with weapons and watching the enemies fall one by one under one's own hands can really make people's blood boil, but where in this world is there a good thing that only takes advantage of it and does not suffer from it?
The last time the Qingque Tribe took such a big advantage by relying on the wall, and some people were injured, let alone chasing others with weapons...
Speaking of defensive weapons, Han Cheng's first thought was armor, the kind that doesn't need armor for warriors, ordinary ones are fine.
It's just that this kind of relatively demanding thing can't be produced according to the current level of the Qingque tribe.
So you can only make the next best thing to build a shield.
The materials currently available to the Qingque Tribe include wood, stone and soil.
It is obviously impossible to make a shield out of stone, and pottery can be made out of clay. It is not impossible to make a shield out of pottery according to Heiwa's current level, but this thing is too heavy and too fragile...
Han Cheng's idea afterwards was to find some wooden sticks of similar thickness and split them in two, and then place them together flat-faced to make a shield.
Then draw three lines horizontally on the back, top, middle, and bottom, and along these lines, respectively open grooves two centimeters deep, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and then use a wooden strip that is wide at the bottom and narrow at the top to penetrate the groove. In this way, these loose pieces of wood will be firmly connected together.
He told the limp about this idea bit by bit, and then he and the limp tried to make it like this, and then... gave up.
Such an approach requires too much tools and technology.
Thinking of the Nanban Rattan Armor Army that was once burned by Zhuge Liang, and seeing the wooden rafts that are common in his own tribe, plus the lame has mastered the technique of weaving the head of the tree, so the rattan shield appeared ...
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